Greater Mt Vernon Zion AME Church
Greater Mt Vernon Zion AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 215 Church Street in Elgin, TX 78621. It is one of 42 churches in Elgin.
215 Church Street, Elgin, TX, 78621Greater Mt Vernon Zion AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,558 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Greater Mt Vernon Zion AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.6%
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (5.8–23.1%)
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Elgin city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 330 residents.
Churches near Greater Mt Vernon Zion AME Church
- Pleasant Bethany Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Winn's Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Coon-Neck Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Seventh Day Adventist — 0.5 mi away
- New Creation Church — 0.6 mi away
- Elgin New Life Baptist Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Lost Pines Cowboy Church — 0.7 mi away
- St Paul Christian Ministry — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle of Grace Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church Elgin — 0.9 mi away
- Elgin Methodist Church — 5 mi away
- Manor United Methodist Church — 11.4 mi away in Manor, TX
- Blue Methodist Church — 13.5 mi away in Lexington, TX
- Mount Nebo AME Church — 14.7 mi away in Lexington, TX